Grand Tour of Switzerland:
Days 1 & 2 Lucerne:
Your Swiss Travel Service tour guide will be on hand at Zurich airport to meet guests arriving before 12.30 (after this time you will make your own way to
Lucerne) and will show you to your train to
Lucerne. An information meeting at 18.30 at the
4* Romantik Hotel Wilden Mann, your base for the next two nights will give you the opportunity to meet your fellow travellers. Explore the old town with its maze of cobbled streets, medieval towers and numerous historical sights. Browse some of the finest shops in Switzerland. Try the Golden roundtrip, encompassing the steepest cogwheel railway to Mount Pilatus or cruise across the lake on a paddle steamer to
Vitznau and take the cogwheel railway to Mount Rigi, the Queen of the Mountains.
Escorted Rail Tours Includes:- Return scheduled flights from London Heathrow to Zurich, and 1st class travel throughout
- Half board accommodation from dinner on day one to breakfast on day eleven. (Buffet breakfast is served at all hotels. Dinner is usually a four course set menu)
- Set three course lunch in the Glacier Express
- Standard rooms with bath or shower and wc at all hotels
- Half fare rail card
- Unique luggage transfer service to and from the UK airport and between all resorts
- All airport taxes and security charges
- Swiss Travel Service tour guide
- ATOL bonding for flight incluive packages for your own financial protection
Good to Know- A Swiss Travel Service guide will accompany you throughout the tour
- A Half Fare Card is included in the Grand Tour and entitles you to half or reduced price travel on the Swiss transport network. This includes most lake steamers, railways and post buses as well as reductions on most cable cars, gondolas and mountain railways
- The weather is variable, we recommend waterproof and windproof clothing, layering for warmth, sunglasses and walking shoes
- Entrances into attractions and activities are not included
- This rail tour is not suitable for children or people with walking difficulties or significant health problems
- Please bear in mind that the hotels we use are by no means identical and vary in style
- Evening meals are usually taken together and there is not necessarily a choice of menu